Author, creator, and iconic mentalist Max Maven joins 793.8 for the first of a two part episode sharing the books that have influenced him and some of the steps that go into creating his own volumes.

Titles mentioned in this Episode

Magic Tricks and Card Tricks – Wilfred Jonson

Abra (Goodliffe’s Abracadabra) – Magic Magazine

Majick Magazine

The Fine Art of Magic – George Kaplan

Winky Dink – Television show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5TdRhNLOPk&t=107s

Duck Amuck – Looney Tunes Cartoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XvXsuSJ-1A

Scientific American Columns – Martin Gardner

Max Maven’s Mind Games – Videocassette https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkjQFkHmR2Y

The Jinx – Collected run of Magazine

The Phoenix – Collected run of Magazine

The Annotated Alice – Martin Gardner & Lewis Carroll

Our Magic – Maskelyne and Devant

The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley – Stephen Minch and Alex Elmsley

The Books of Wonder – Stephen Minch and Tommy Wonder

Author Robert Parrish

Author Eugene Burger

Author Robert Neale

Houdini: The Man Who Walked Through Walls - William Lindsay Gresham

Illusion Show – David Bamberg

Milo and Roger – Arthur Brandon

Harpo Speaks – Harpo Marx

Call it Sleep – Henry Roth

The Death and Resurrection Show – Rogan Taylor

Mathematics, Magic and Mystery – Martin Gardner

An Emotional Memoir of Franz Kline - Fielding Dawson

Einstein’s Dreams – Alan Lightman

Metropolitan Life, Social Studies – Fran Lebowitz

Author Jorge Luis Borges